Duckbill (North Sea)
 
|
The continental shelf sector , which extends from the German North Sea coast to the northwest and which makes up the German Exclusive Economic Zone , is referred to as the duck bill. This designation is occasionally used by official bodies, while laws designate the area as the German exclusive economic zone in the North Sea .
The station ENTE3 (duckbill station 3) with the coordinates of 55.92 ° N , 3.35 ° O is also the most northern and western point of the German Exclusive Economic Zone.
In the north-western part the duck's bill includes a strip of the Dogger Bank , and extends beyond into the central North Sea.
Borderline
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
The definition of the duckbill was made by bilateral agreements between the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom , the Netherlands and Denmark on the basis of the judgment of the International Court of Justice on the North Sea Continental Shelf Case (1969). The contracts for this were signed on October 30, 1970 and set the size of the "duck's bill" at around 36,000 km². The exclusive economic zone , which lies outside the territorial sea , is only 28,600 km² in size.
The border between German, Danish and British areas on the continental shelf is determined by the following coordinates ( European date 1950 / ED50), which are connected by great arcs :
Natural gas production
1974 was the first successful drilling for natural gas in the duckbill, about 300 km from the German North Sea coast . By 1988, the gas field A6 / B4 was examined more closely by three further boreholes . On 18 September 2000 a preparatory phase of 18 months after the scheduled delivery operation of three began sunk recorded holes. The gas is transported through a pipeline on the seabed from the production site to Den Helder in the Netherlands. The project is the first offshore project in the area of the German continental shelf of the North Sea, planned and implemented in close cooperation with Wintershall Noordzee BV in The Hague .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uwe Jenisch: The new international law of the sea. Effects on the German economy. Chapter 8 Territorial changes in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. In: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (Hrsg.): Politische Studien , Heft 249, 1980 ( ZDB -ID 202300-3 ), p. 37.
- ^ Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection: Marine Mining
- ↑ Spatial planning plan for the German exclusive economic zone in the North Sea
- ↑ MURSYS - North Sea. List of stations for monitoring trips in the German EEZ ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Environmental report North Sea ( Memento from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 25.4 MB)
- ↑ Kitz / Rothenbühler: International Law Practice of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1969 and 1970 . In: Journal for Foreign Public Law and Völkerrecht , Volume 33, Issue 4, pp. 681–683 ( digitized version ; (PDF; 6.9 MB)).
- ↑ Environmental report on the spatial plan for the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the North Sea ( Memento from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 25.4 MB), p. 16.
- ↑ BGBl. 1972 II p. 881
See also
Web links
- Map of the duck's bill (PDF; 326 kB) from the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
- Measuring stations in the duck's bill , Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
- Annex (to § 1) Spatial plan for the German exclusive economic zone in the North Sea (text part and map part)
- Environmental report, Chapter 8: Cross-sectoral marine protection
- Law on the three contracts of 1971, contracts ( Federal Law Gazette II p. 881 , with point coordinates of the boundary)
Coordinates: 55 ° N , 7 ° E